peacock• There was a peacock there, stampeded by the queue.• Every time she seduces a freshpeacock, she wins a little extrasperm that she probably does not need.• The low-growing peacockgingers also would fit well in such a grouping.• Above the scoopneckline of her peacock blue dress, an ill-definedrash of mottled pink broke out, then faded.• He climbed away from their reaching hands, on to the very top of the gantry, breaking the spines of his peacockwings.• In a few weeks' time this year's peacocks, immaculately spruce, would emerge from pupae.• The peacockbutterfly normally rests with its wings pressed tightly together.• No one in Lancre had ever worn a waistcoatembroidered with peacocks.
Originpeacock
(1300-1400)pea“peacock”((900-1000)) (from Old English, from Latinpavo) + cock